Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINI think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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